Jerome (thug)

Jerome was a French peasant who joined a mob of angry Catholics in attacking a Huguenot church service in 1559, resulting in the death of Emile de Bourbon. The gang's leader Luc justified Emile's death by having the horse-kick victim Marc d'Linde brought from Val d'Sud and presented to King Francis II of France and Mary, Queen of Scots as a victim of an assault by Emile, but, while in prison, Jerome confessed Luc's plot. When Louis I of Bourbon, Prince de Conde asked why Luc had killed his nephew for no reason, Luc called the late Emile a "godless Protestant".